Title :
Preliminary experimental investigations on near field breast cancer thermotherapy
Author :
Meng Li ; Di-Xiang Yin ; Long Wang ; Li, Joshua Le-Wei
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Electromagn. & Sch. of Electron. Eng., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu, China
Abstract :
A microstrip spiral antenna with sharpening and a bi-conical over sleeve antenna have been proposed for noninvasive superficial layer breast cancer and invasive breast cancer thermotherapies of deep-located breast tumors, respectively. Some measured results are obtained by comparing results of the microwave equivalent phantom model and the swine. A process for the breast cancer treatment is also proposed and some useful results are obtained, where temperature measurement and phantom model manufacture are established.
Keywords :
biothermics; cancer; conical antennas; microstrip antennas; microwave heating; phantoms; physiological models; radiation therapy; spiral antennas; temperature measurement; tumours; biconical over sleeve antenna; deep-located breast tumors; invasive breast cancer thermotherapies; microstrip spiral antenna; microwave equivalent phantom model; near field breast cancer thermotherapy; noninvasive superficial layer breast cancer thermotherapies; swine; temperature measurement; Antenna measurements; Breast cancer; Electromagnetic heating; Microstrip antennas; Microwave antennas; Microwave technology; breast cancer; over sleeve bi-conical antenna; phantom model; spiral antenna; temperature; thermotherapy;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Workshop Series on RF and Wireless Technologies for Biomedical and Healthcare Applications (IMWS-BIO), 2013 IEEE MTT-S International
Conference_Location :
Singapore
DOI :
10.1109/IMWS-BIO.2013.6756150
